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BISHKEK : The Russian space industry will continue paying enhanced attention to the quality of products manufactured by the Voronezh Mechanical Plant, despite the successful launch of a Proton carrier rocket, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told TASS on Thursday. “Roscosmos [State Space Corporation] did not conceal the problems exposed at one of the sector’s…

The first satellite to be developed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) — the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite (NISAR) – is the world’s most expensive Earth imaging satellite. NISAR will cost both national space agencies over $1.65 billion to co-develop, build and launch. The huge satellite will be launched from…

China’s Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at the launch base in Hainan, south China, on Sunday. The carrier rocket left Tianjin on April 24 and sailed 1,670 nautical miles to arrive at Wenchang, Hainan Province. The rocket is scheduled to send the Shijian-18 communication satellite into the Earth’s orbit this June. The Long March…

U.S. satellites may be vulnerable to attacks that could make our whole way of fighting war riskier, according to experts. “Every major space-faring nation that can track a satellite and launch into outer space has the means to mess up a satellite,” said Michael Krepon, a space security expert and co-founder of the Stimson Center…

An upgraded, four-stage Minotaur IV launch vehicle on July 15 will launch a classified U.S. satellite built to spy on other satellites such as those from Russia and China from a unique geosynchronous equatorial orbit above the Equator. Known as Operationally Responsive Space-5 (ORS-5), this mission run by the U.S. Air Force will orbit a…

The Luojia-1A is a 10kg mini satellite being developed by scientists at Wuhan University in Hubei. China is set to launch its first remote-sensing satellite capable of detecting large lighted structures on the ground at night. The Luojia-1A, a 10-kilogramme mini satellite, is being developed by scientists at Wuhan University in Hubei province and will…

Kirameki-2’s launch is the latest in a series of measures underscoring a shift in Japan’s security policies. While the changes have provoked public debate for their perceived abandonment of the Self Defense Force’s historical role, some observers argue the changes are overdue. JANUARY 25, 2017 —Japan’s first military communications satellite entered orbit as planned on…